Late to the story as usual, but evidently cagastro has passed the keys to Cuba "temporarily" to his brother Raul....

Miami is in an uproar (live streaming video at the link) at the possibility that the chicken lollipop is about to shuffle off the mortal coil.

Val has a good round-up of the details

As usual, check with Babalu for the latest on this story.

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The lovely Phoenix brings it to Kofi Annan.  Both Barrels.

"Seriously, man! Did you smoke your breakfast, or are you seriously this stupid? It seems to me a foolish thing to do to set up your outpost so close to an outpost of one of the engaged parties. More specifically, it seems beyond foolish - stupid really - to set up that outpost nearer to the likely loser in the fight in terms of technological bang-for-the-buck, if you know what I mean."

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On 26 de julio, 1953, fidel cagastro and his band of commie idiots led a raid on one of the largest military garrisons in Cuba.

Nearly everything went wrong, the rebels were out numbered, part of the weapons caravan got lost on the way, and more than 2/3 of the rebels were killed or captured.  Several of them ran for it, including the original coward, cagastro.

Oh, and BTW, he WAS captured.  Inept pig that he is, he was found in the jungle shortly afterward and arrested.  cagastro was in fact sentenced to death, but in a head-scratching moment worthy of Dr. Evil and his foul-tempered sea bass, Batista pardoned him in 1955.

Kinda ironic that such a stunning defeat serves as the namesake of the movement that brought cagastro to power, no?

So today is the day that Cuba celebrates her "glorious" revolucion.  The banners and music displayed today continuing the web of lies that turned a humbling defeat into the rallying point of a damned revolution.  Because the truth, in Cuba, depends on your point of view.

For the Cubanos, a proud and once prosperous people, it is a day to pretend their want and hunger are absent, and for cagastro and his cronies, a day to ignore the facade crumbling around them.

For more info on the battle of 26 julio , go here.

For more thoughts on what this day means to Cubans, both in Cuba and elsewhere, try any of these wonderful Cuban bloggers:
El Conductor
Ziva
Marc
Alfredo
Killcastro
Val Prieto

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"See, the irony is what they really need to do is to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this (expletive),"-- President Bush in what he thought were private remarks to UK PM Tony Blair

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1 Can you even believe this is "news?" Give me an effin break. News people need to GET A LIFE!

Posted by: Marie at July 17, 2006 12:46 PM (dswo0)

2 Our President is a plain-spoken man. Just the facts as needed to be said.

Posted by: Mrs_Who at July 17, 2006 01:16 PM (rtTnw)

3 Just another "major league asshole" day at the office. And I would have been fine if he had said "f*cking Syria" and/or "f*cking Hezbollah", but I'll take what I can get.

Posted by: physics geek at July 17, 2006 01:19 PM (KqeHJ)

4 I think this is great. I think his poll approval ratings will go up just for showing some guts. I hope he gets the msg and realizes we LIKE it when he's like that! I hope he doesn't appologize or something dumb like that! The left is really appalled that he'd cuss like that!! LOLOLOLOLOLOL What prissy hypocrites

Posted by: beth at July 17, 2006 01:21 PM (X6tm3)

5 He sure as hell better NOT apologize... sheesh! Like Lurch & the others don't ever utter a 4-letter word when they can't get their hair & makeup just right? Gimme a break.

Posted by: Marie at July 17, 2006 01:54 PM (dswo0)

6 Are there people on the left actually criticizing him for cussing? I thought about having a look around, but didn't have the heart because I *knew* a lot of them would, just like that video of him casually flipping the birdie. The thing that kills me is that if this were Bill Clinton, they'd heap the "man of the people" praise on him for it.

Posted by: Emily at July 17, 2006 02:19 PM (lXDk3)

7 My roommate is against cussing. She thinks it's anti-Christian. Ha!

Posted by: Dana at July 17, 2006 05:20 PM (uXuyq)

8 Shows he is human.

Posted by: vw bug at July 18, 2006 05:13 AM (pFIjA)

9 I liked it (just wish he hadn't been chewing at the time....)

Posted by: Richmond at July 18, 2006 02:59 PM (e8QFP)

10 I loved it. My favorite part was probably "Yo, Blair." And I have no idea why ...

Posted by: Maria at July 18, 2006 08:35 PM (pv1Y6)

11 Loved it!

Posted by: oddybobo at July 19, 2006 07:06 AM (6Gm0j)

12 And wasn't it Kerry who let fly with the f-bomb when he skied into the secret service guy?

Posted by: Mrs_Who at July 19, 2006 08:36 AM (rtTnw)

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A fantastic damn fisking by Ken of it comes in pints? regarding estate taxes and the lunatics who think that they are both useful and only for the rich.

Believe me, he knows a lot about the subject, from personal experience.....

Here's Ken's money shot....
After laying out the current law regarding estate exemptions through 2010, he says:

"this piece never mentions that in 2011 the exemption goes back to $1 million (and the top tax rate goes to 50%). Think about how much land prices (both home and farm) have increased in recent years. Think about how many people have IRAs and similar vehicles. How many of those estates will be valued at over $1 million five years from now? A lot of people who don't consider themselves rich are going to be very unpleasantly surprised." (emphasis mine)

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You Are Most Like George W. Bush

So what if you're not exactly popular? You still rule the free world. And while you may be quite conservative now, you knew how to party back in the day!

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1 Oh *I* should be so lucky!!

Posted by: Richmond at July 07, 2006 04:04 PM (e8QFP)

2 I'm John F Kennedy. He's the good one. So I'm pleased with this result.

Posted by: Cardinal Martini at July 08, 2006 07:20 PM (5LIuJ)

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...but only because I think he'd get a kick out of a sexy, busty blonde cooing Happy Birthday, Mister President....

July 6 is President Bush's 60th birthday, and I wish him many more.

I am truly thankful that W is our President.  The Anchoress explains it better than I ever could.

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